Audience Quote by Elie Wiesel

“He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played…

— Elie Wiesel

Music is fragile: people die, and it's forgotten.

— Ry Cooder

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb…

— Max Beckmann

The music itself, I suppose, is the thing that will survive in my memory, happily.

— Brad Mehldau

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

— Don McLean

You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he…

— Andrew Schneider

I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is…

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And beauty, garlanded in hell.”

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Good music will make you forget all your misery.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The music is mesmerizing. It’s not sad, but it makes you yearn for those afternoons or mornings or nights when you felt so damn…

— Jason Myers

“How insufficient the memory, to fail before death. how will hear these notes when the train slides into the yard, the lights turned out,…

— Ocean Vuong

The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through…

— Mstislav Rostropovich